Looking for info on national carriers < the elite fleet>

a number of members have gone to national,

only to never post here again.......

no idear what it means.

maybe they are too busy, or maybe they moved on !

 

Maybe they are in fact a "time portal" a "black hole" in the Trucking Industry if you will? Think how one's life could be different if one could go back in time...........................................


Aw hell;who am I kidding..I wouldn't change a thing-it was/is too much fun. I see "those guys" once in awhile and I will talk to em and post what they have to say..As well as suggest they come "here" themselves.

 

I think they have a bullhauler division in Tyler, TX now. Still mainly out of Liberal, KS and now they have 48 state or regional. That's all I can offer. Don't hear much of them even though they're a major player in the reefer and meat hauling business.

 

On of the worst I've ever worked for. I did both lease, and company here. Lease, I went three months without a paycheck. As company, $300 a week. Miles are between 1200 and 2000 a week, lots of sitting. Any other driver with them I have talked to was doing the same as me so I know it was company wide. I just left them four months ago so all this is pretty recent. Overall, one of the, if not the worst driving job I ever had.

 

Oh, I forgot, they also never pay for breakdown, detention or layover. Also, if you are broke down, they never pay you back for hotels even though they're supposed to. When I left, they owed me over $800 for all this and still haven't seen it.

 

No miles, wait for days at the shippers for the load, penalized for long loads, this place is a totally dysfunctional place. Their office staff hates drivers and will do NOTHING to support them.

 

dont sound like they are the elite fleet to drive for.

 

Mark, read all the threads on this company. Sorry to say, they are nothing but bad. This is only one of two companies I have worked for that I can not say one positive thing about. Miles are terrible, your lucky if you get 2500 a week, normal is 1500-2000 or so. Like OneSpecial said, they hate drivers. They lie constantly and treat you like dirt. As a lease driver with them, I didn't see a paycheck for three months straight. As a company driver, $300 a week, and I was begging for miles and treated my dispatcher like she was my best friend, even though she treated me like garbage, just in the hopes she would throw me a few miles. Lots of sitting, up to 3-4 days at a time and even though they are supposed to, they don't pay layover, detention or breakdown pay. Also, when you hire a lumper, they try really hard not to reimburse you, you have to play games for weeks until you give up or they figure out your not going to stop. I never had to work so hard just trying to get what they owed me. By the time I left, they still owed me over $800 and of course, never saw it. Every driver I had talked to while there, and even drivers now, give the same horror stories I went through.
Bad BAD company, and if you decide you want to give them a try anyways, do yourself a favor and get some money in the bank first, and have another job lined up before you start there.